Supporting Music

The Salvat Foundation carries out a committed duty to cultural patronage with a special focus on the musical field, promoting young talents and promising voices across the Spanish musical landscape through the Salvat Bach Grant. And it does so in collaboration with important Spanish auditoriums such as the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música Catalana—of whose patronage councils it is a member—and Teatro Real in Madrid. It also supports the Concert de Rams in the Abbey of Montserrat and promotes the Salvat Ensemble orchestra.

The Salvat Foundation regularly collaborates with the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Gran Teatro del Liceu, organising concerts with them in its auditoriums and forming part of its patronage councils, as well as with the Teatro Real in Madrid. It maintains a close collaboration with all of them that materialises annually in their involvement with the auditions and the awarding of the Salvat Bach Grant in support of young talents.

Created in 1994, the choir is made up of students or teachers, former students or other members of the university community. In addition to participating in concerts organised by the faculty itself and university choir meetings, the choir participates intensively in activities organised by other entities and citizen associations.

Its musical repertoire includes pieces from the Renaissance to the present day in all types of formats and genres, from popular songs from around the world to jazz and gospel, with special mention of a unique pharmaceutical-themed commissioned piece, Herbarius, hortus sanitatis.

The Salvat Ensemble orchestra was founded in May 2018 at the behest of its current director, Ahmet Süleyman Bilgin, and the president of the Choir of the Pharmacology Faculty, Pere Gomis. Although it was born with the idea of providing a stable, high-standard orchestra to accompany the choir in pieces that required it, the Salvat Ensemble extended its vision and began to develop its own artistic programme. All the members that make up the Salvat Ensemble are professional musicians with a long career in chamber music groups and orchestras, both in Spain and internationally. Thanks to careful training, the Salvat Ensemble stands out for its mature level of performance.

One of its most outstanding performances was that of 15 October 2019 in Santa Maria Reina de Pedralbes (Barcelona), where it performed, together with a programme of selected compositions, Mozart’s Requiem (see video in this section), as part of a concert in tribute to Elvira María Teresa Musso, who passed away on 8 March of that same year following her extensive career as president of the SALVAT pharmaceutical company.

The Salvat Ensemble works and offers its music with the aim of granting a new interpretation of the orchestral repertoire, with a clear commitment to the authenticity of their performance according to historical criteria and a firm will to bring the beauty of classical music closer to the public.

The Bach Collegium Barcelona provides an opportunity to continue professionally supporting, in collaboration with the Salvat Foundation, the most promising solo singers with the greatest impact in the field of solo singing and specialised in early music.

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The collaboration with the Abbey of Montserrat was born in 2021 and originated in support of the traditional Concert de Rams, programmed annually by the abbey on the night of Palm Sunday, featuring religious music in accordance with this important date. A commitment that is maintained over time thanks to the signing of a collaborative agreement.